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Dark Energy Survey: photos & videos

4-Minute Video

Members of the Dark Energy Survey collaboration explain what they hope to learn by studying the southern sky with the world's most advanced digital camera, mounted on a telescope in Chile. Credit: Fermilab.

Photos

This image of the NGC 1398 galaxy was taken with the Dark Energy Camera. This galaxy lives in the Fornax cluster, roughly 65 million light-years from Earth. It is 135,000 light-years in diameter, just slightly larger than our own Milky Way galaxy, and contains more than a billion stars. Credit: Dark Energy Survey.

A Dark Energy Camera image of Spiral Galaxy NGC 0895, located in the constellation Cetus, about 110 million light-years from Earth. Its blue color indicates that it contains many newly formed (and newly forming) stars. Credit: Dark Energy Survey.

Composite Dark Energy Camera image of one of the sky regions that the collaboration will use to study supernovae, exploding stars that will help uncover the nature of dark energy. The outlines of each of the 62 charge-coupled devices can be seen. This picture spans 2 degrees across on the sky and contains 520 megapixels.

Composite DECam image (combining images from 5 filters) of the cluster of galaxies SPT-CL J2332-5358. The center of the cluster is indicated by the yellowish galaxies in the middle of the picture. The bright galaxy in the upper left is in the foreground (closer to us than the cluster).

Pan across observatories at CTIO to the 4M Blanco Telescope, which houses the Dark Energy Survey experiment.
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Smaller observatories with mountains in the background.
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